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May 3, 2011 · Late in 1955, Ingmar Bergman made a nearly perfect work—the exquisite carnal comedy Smiles of a Summer Night. It was the distillation of elements he had worked with for several years, in the 1952 Secrets of Women (originally called Waiting Women), the 1954 A Lesson in Love, and the early 1955 Dreams; these episodic comedies of infidelity are like early attempts or drafts. They were all set in the present, and the themes were plainly exposed; the dialogue, full of arch epigrams, was often ...
May 25, 2004 · Smiles of a Summer Night is a comedy. Comedy's not something one routinely associates with Bergman but actually, he's done a couple of good ones across his life as film director -The Devil's Eye in 1960 and his filming of Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1975.
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New. Show all movies in the JustWatch Streaming Charts. Streaming charts last updated: 1:11:04 PM, 05/25/2024. Smiles of a Summer Night is 23899 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 27440 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Permanent Vacation but less ...
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Rent Smiles of a Summer Night on Fandango at Home, or buy it on Fandango at Home. Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman (Gunnar Björnstrand) and his young wife, Anne (Ulla ...
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Available on iTunes. After fifteen films that received mostly local acclaim, the comedy Smiles of a Summer Night at last ushered in an international audience for Ingmar Bergman. In turn-of-the-century Sweden, four men and four women attempt to navigate the laws of attraction. During a weekend in the country, the women collude to force the men ...
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Whilst Smiles of a Summer Night is first and foremost a comedy, it still allows Bergman to explore the relationship between men and women, their problems and neuroses, with a profound insight and intelligence. Beneath the obvious surface parody in which romantic love is portrayed as a kind of warfare, we can see the struggles and anxieties that ...
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